The recommendations were among four made to the township's zoning hearing board.

Written by John Kissinger

Amity Township, PA —

The Amity Township Board of Supervisors on Wednesday night recommended that the township's zoning hearing hoard approve four items at the latter's June 17 meeting.

A variance request from Dynamic Growth Dental Support LLC to alter minimum lot requirements in preparation of a new dental office near the intersection of Ben Franklin Highway and Monocacy Creek Road.

A special exception for a group home license application by Lacek Childcare In-Home Day Care Center. Several neighbors spoke in support of the license application for the facility in a residential area.

Variances that would allow Jeff Povilaitis to demolish an existing house on his 60-acre property at 391 Monocacy Hill Road and build a new one and add a supplementary structure, both requiring variance under current zoning restrictions.

A five-year extension of the Leaf Creek Farm Development plan — a 118-acre parcel on Route 662 near Douglassville. The plan is set to expire in August. The Leaf Creek Farm Development is owned by GCP Amity Residential of King of Prussia, which also requested a five-year extension on the zoning hearing board's previous conditional-use agreement for variances set at the plan's start. The board recommended staff arrange for a public hearing to present and finalize the zoning extension.

In other business, Blazer Education Foundation and Joe Boyle, a sixth grade teacher in the Daniel Boone School District, proposed creating a local beer-and-wine festival as a fundraiser for grants supporting science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics initiatives, STEAM curricula, in local schools.

The festival on township property would be a limited, ticket-access event with its own security and rules of conduct.

Also at the meeting, District Judge Steven M. Chieffo swore in new police Officer Tyler Svitak, and newly promoted police Sgt. John Coe Jr.